Poemeleon: The Blog

If you are a Poemeleon contributor and would like to participate in our ongoing contributor interview series, "The Habitual Poet," download the questions here, input your answers, and e-mail them as an attachment with the subject line "habitual poet"; or if you would like us to post your news or event notice please include the information in an e-mail with the subject line "contributor news."

Need a prompt for National Poetry Month? Try writing a poem inspired by one of Beth Moon's beautiful photographs for a forthcoming anthology, Over The Moon, curated by Robbi Nester, to be published online by Poemeleon in late 2016.

Submit 1-3 poems inspired by specific photographs by Moon (named in the poem) with a 3rd person bio of no more than 70 words to rknester@yahoo.com by May 1st.

Submission Guidelines: Asian Pacific American Issue

Please read the following guidelines carefully.

Poemeleon is now open for submissions for a special guest-edited Asian Pacific American (APA) issue:

From #blacklivesmatter to #modelminoritymutiny to #actualasianpoets, recent times have been ripe with reasons for Asian Pacific American (APA) poets to make sure their voices are not just heard but felt—enough to cause significant ripples in the spheres of citizenship and consciousness. At the same time, Asians have been in North America since the 16th century—living, writing, experimenting, (re)inventing for and of themselves—drawing from a myriad of histories, languages, and aesthetics that both divide and unite.

For this special issue of Poemeleon with guest editors Kenji C. Liu and Angela Penaredondo, we are seeking poetry (text and visual) from APA poets that comes from a variety of styles, modes, structures, dreams, and spaces. Send us your best work. We want to celebrate and make it visible, allow it to reverberate across borders as it should!

Deadline for this issue: May 31, 2016

Expect a response within 1 - 3 months after close of submissions. If you have not heard from us after this time period please feel free to inquire.

(Editor's note: We seem to be running longer and longer on response times; please don't take this as a sign that we don't like your work - take it as a sign that the editor is overworked. This journal is a labor of love, and as such, sometimes has to make way for other things. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.)

- Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as we are notified promptly when work is accepted elsewhere, but please no multiple submissions. The only exceptions to this rule is if you are submitting both poems and an essay, or both an essay and a book review, or both poems and a book review.

- Previously published is also fine, as long as it was in print, not online, and as long as you as the author retain all copyright. Because we strive to be the first online publisher of your work, if it has appeared anywhere that is publicly accessible on the web (including on your blog) then it is considered previously published. Please feel free to contact us and we will provide clarification on a case-by-case basis.

- We acquire one-time, non-exclusive rights to publish your work, at which time all rights revert back to you as the author. If we should ever decide to create a print anthology and would like to include your work, we will contact you.

We are now accepting submissions for our next issue, Volume VII, The Disobedient Issue. We are leaving the interpretation of the concept of disobedience open, but know that this issue was inspired by reading this essay by Alice Notley, and by necessary acts of civil disobedience everywhere. Please send only your best work, any length, any style.

Deadline for this issue: January 31, 2015

Expect a response within 1 - 3 months after close of submissions. If you have not heard from us after this time period please feel free to inquire.

(Editor's note: We seem to be running longer and longer on response times; please don't take this as a sign that we don't like your work - take it as a sign that the editor is overworked. This journal is a labor of love, and as such, sometimes has to make way for other things. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.)

- Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as we are notified promptly when work is accepted elsewhere, but please no multiple submissions. The only exceptions to this rule is if you are submitting both poems and an essay, or both an essay and a book review, or both poems and a book review.

- Previously published is also fine, as long as it was in print, not online, and as long as you as the author retain all copyright. Because we strive to be the first online publisher of your work, if it has appeared anywhere that is publicly accessible on the web (including on your blog) then it is considered previously published. Please feel free to contact us and we will provide clarification on a case-by-case basis.

- We acquire one-time, non-exclusive rights to publish your work, at which time all rights revert back to you as the author. If we should ever decide to create a print anthology and would like to include your work, we will contact you.

- If accepted for inclusion you may be asked to provide a brief contributor's statement exploring your view of disobedience in literature. (See past issuesfor examples of what we mean.)

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Thanks to all of you for being so patient. It's "unreal" how long it's taken for me to get back to everyone, but all notifications have been sent and production of the issue is underway. The issue should be live within a week at most. Will send out another notice when it's up, but the cover is now live with a gorgeous image from artist Julie Heffernan. Check out her website while you're waiting, and keep checking this space for more news.